


1953:
U.S. overthrows Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran. U.S. installs Shah
as dictator.
1954:
U.S. overthrows democratically-elected President Arbenz of Guatemala.
200,000 civilians killed.

1963: U.S. backs assassination of South Vietnamese President
Diem.
1963-1975: American military kills
4 million civilians in Southeast Asia.

September 11, 1973: U.S. stages coup in Chile. Democratically
elected president Salvador Allende assassinated. Dictator Augusto Pinochet
installed. 5,000 Chileans murdered.
1977:
U.S. backs military rulers of El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorans and four
American nuns killed.

1980's: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to
kill Soviets. CIA gives them $3 billion.
1981: Reagan administration trains
and funds "contras". 30,000 Nicaraguans die.
1982: U.S. provides billions in aid
to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians.
1983: White House secretly gives
Iran weapons to help them kill Iraqis.
1989: CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also
serving as President of Panama) disobeys orders from Washington. U.S.
invades Panama and removes Noriega. 3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties

1990: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons
from U.S.
1991: U.S. enters Iraq. Bush reinstates
dictator of Kuwait.
1998: Clinton bombs "weapons
factory" in Sudan. Factory turns out to be making aspirin.
1991 to present: American planes
bomb Iraq on a weekly basis. U.N. estimates 500,000 Iraqi children die
from bombing and sanctions.

2000-01: U.S. gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in
"aid".
September 11, 2001: Osama Bin Laden
uses his expert CIA training to murder 3,000 people.
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